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His grand - father was a dispensing chemist , who also owned a grocer's shop ; but his father was educated to a learned profession . Johann Rubens was born in 1530 , studied law at Louvain and Padua , and took the degree of Doctor of ...
His grand - father was a dispensing chemist , who also owned a grocer's shop ; but his father was educated to a learned profession . Johann Rubens was born in 1530 , studied law at Louvain and Padua , and took the degree of Doctor of ...
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... since no picture now extant can with any certainty be attributed to him . For another four years Rubens studied with van Veen , at that time regarded as " the Prince of Flemish Painting " . This very learned and distinguished ...
... since no picture now extant can with any certainty be attributed to him . For another four years Rubens studied with van Veen , at that time regarded as " the Prince of Flemish Painting " . This very learned and distinguished ...
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The evenings were devoted to his friends ; for he kept an open and hospitable house and specially enjoyed intercourse with learned men . According to one of his biographers his house was regulated with the strictness almost of a convent ...
The evenings were devoted to his friends ; for he kept an open and hospitable house and specially enjoyed intercourse with learned men . According to one of his biographers his house was regulated with the strictness almost of a convent ...
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His powerful influence acted , not only on young art - students desirous of learning from him , but also on contemporary workers : and even on his former teachers . He often worked on the same canvas with other painters , with whom he ...
His powerful influence acted , not only on young art - students desirous of learning from him , but also on contemporary workers : and even on his former teachers . He often worked on the same canvas with other painters , with whom he ...
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This we learn from Rubens himself in his interesting correspondence with Sir Dudley Carleton , British Ambassador at the Hague . These letters dating from the year 1618 , great number of which have been published , are invaluable for ...
This we learn from Rubens himself in his interesting correspondence with Sir Dudley Carleton , British Ambassador at the Hague . These letters dating from the year 1618 , great number of which have been published , are invaluable for ...
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| Title | Rubens Added t.-p.: Monographs on artists ... IX Volume 9 of Monographs on artists ... IX |
| Author | Hermann Knackfuss |
| Translated by | Luise Marie Schwaab Richter |
| Publisher | Velhagen & Klasing, 1904 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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